About Ather Beg

Ather is a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect and works for Amazon Web Services. His focus is on all things related to cloud, technology, storage, virtualization and whatever comes in between. Being in the industry for over 27 years, Ather has been a vExpert for 10 years running and is also vExpert NSX/HCX/CloudProvider. He has also been an official VMware blogger at VMworld EU and US and is one of the founding members and contributor to Open HomeLab Wiki and co-hosts @OpenTechCast as well. Ather’s natural habitat is tech events like VMworld, Cloud (and other) Field Days, VMUGs etc. and he thrives on meeting like-minded people and having a good old chat about technology. He’s friendly and not dangerous at all so please do interact with him whenever you spot him in such surroundings.
2 02, 2017

A New Beginning – NSX-T

By |2017-02-17T09:12:45+00:00February 2nd, 2017|NSX|2 Comments

With NSX 6.3, VMware is also releasing something called NSX-T. If this is the first time you're hearing about it, rest assured, you are not alone. First of all, "T" stands for "Transformers" and the version being released today is 1.1. Why? If you know/remember the history of NSX, you'll know that there existed a [...]

2 02, 2017

NSX 6.3: What’s New?

By |2017-02-02T12:59:56+00:00February 2nd, 2017|NSX|0 Comments

Finally! It's time to talk about NSX 6.3. As you can tell from minor version jump, this version has a number of new capabilities and enhancements and most of them were highly-awaited too. If you were waiting for it too, there is a good chance that it contains what you wanted. So, what's new in [...]

4 01, 2017

Error while joining machine to domain: Logon Failure: The target account name is incorrect

By |2017-01-04T09:36:57+00:00January 4th, 2017|Active Directory|4 Comments

While rejoining one of my machines to the domain, I saw the following error: The following error occurred attempting to join the domain Logon Failure: The target account name is incorrect which I am sure you can guess, was completely wrong as I've being using the domain and the account in question for years. Clearly, something [...]

21 10, 2016

VMworld Europe 2016 – Thursday (Last)

By |2016-12-11T15:24:59+00:00October 21st, 2016|Virtualization, VMworld|0 Comments

Thursdays are different to the other days. There's no General Session so VMvillage opens earlier. I checked out from my place early and got to the venue. It pays to be early on Thursday as almost everyone has luggage to store in the morning. The staff is great as they are extremely quick in taking it [...]

18 10, 2016

What’s New in vSphere 6.5: Security

By |2016-12-11T15:24:59+00:00October 18th, 2016|vCenter, Virtualization, vSphere|1 Comment

VMware has stated this vision to deliver: Comprehensive Security with End to End Datacenter Protection in a way that makes security easy to manage We all know that corners are cut with security when controls are too difficult and cumbersome to implement. If made simple and easy, there's a greater chance of achieving end-to-end security for [...]

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